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Charliebrownau Astroboy Rant - 80's series vs revamped 2009 movie

Astro boy is one of those really retro awesome cartoon (Animation with USA english dub) shows back in the 80's I watched when I was younger growing up . Other great shows on TV at that time was Voltron , Transformers , Monkey Magic and Dr who with Tom Baker.

Astro boy for the un educated that has never had the great experince of watching the show is a fictional cartoon series about a Robot Kid designed by a professor that ends up fighting crime . He has rockets that come out of his feet to allow him to fly , laser that fires out of his finger and machine gun in his butt .

For more information Wiki has a great entry on the series
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astro_Boy_(1980_TV_series)

I just came across a Astro Boy 2009 Movie mentioned on IMDB and looking at the pics its truely been americanised , which is a shame . What was wrong with the 80's look which (I cant confirm) might of followed the proper manga look .

Info on the 2009 remake on:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astro_Boy_(film)
and
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0375568/

The dates of the release of the movie on IMDB currently list only a few countries :

Japan	23 October 2009
USA	23 October 2009
Turkey	30 October 2009
Brazil	20 November 2009

So it wouldnt take much to image that the Australian local release is going to be Nov-Dec-Jan
but you never know it could come out in AU in Oct 2009 .

Today (11 Feb 2009) I have two different people comment on two different posts
and both comments were the same:
[this is good]

Is this a sign of a way that new spammers are tagging my posts ?

All my posts are setup in a way that I have to approve posts before they are visible to the public
as I did on LJ also .

Note to spammers if your reading this , STOP POSTING this is good , since its NOT good

My views on Anime and USA Dubs Vs Fansubs and Anime legit in Australia

I recently talked to a person that didn't like my views on Anime and I would like to express my views publicly
you might not like them but everyone has their own choices , views and tastes . I don't like the taste of coke
for example , but its very popular , does that make me right or wrong . No , it means I have my own choice of dislike
and likes and others have their own. The Whole Population does not have to like the same thing.

USA Dubs vs Asian Audio with Subs (Fansub or licensed)

I only like Asian made Anime in Asian Speaking Language and subs.
(I do enjoy some [not all] American and non asian cartoons , eg Lilo and Stitch,
Transformers, astro boy, new starwars tv show)

(Anime as I define is Cartoon Animation that comes from Asian , starts off in Audio Language ,
 is subbed and then altered and changed [names,voices,references] to suit USA childreen/USA
people market then takes longer to filter to non USA english speaking places, eg Australia)

Just to Clarify again :-

Cartoon = Animation (TV/Media) in English as its original audio source, animation made in USA/non asia
Comic Book = Physical Book that depicks with pictures and words a story line without animation, made in USA/non asia

Anime = Animation (TV/Media) in Asian (Japanese) as its original audio source, animation made in asia
then re 'licensed' to USA to be altered , edited , changed and USA voice dub's added for world wide English
speaking market
Manga = Physical Book that depicks with pictures and words a story line without animation, made in asia

(Note: The amount of times in my life that people call Manga , anime is VERY BIG and VERY ANNOYING after the 100'th time)

Why I don't support buying ""USA licensed Anime" in Australia

Note:   COST is not main factor of the issue

- I don't support buying anime that has DUEL (both) American USA Dubs and Asian Subs.
  I want to support anime in its original format with subs added without american voices at all on the media
- Anime companies in USA/AU dont support the English speaking Market that wants subbed legit anime , why support them ?
- I don't want to support anime that takes a HUGE LONG TIME to go from Asia , to USA , to AU (1 to 6 years)
- I don't want to support australian anime re distrubution companies that dont support the market of anime watchers
  that dont want to support subs only anime media
- Cost - Start off cheaper (just like USA movie/tv discs) , a lot of series are 10 to 25 eps . Now when you look at TV show boxsets lately a season (11 to 22-25) is like 25 to 70 bucks . Why can't anime be like that from the begining ?

Digital Download:-

- If I could buy/pay for the latest Asian Anime eps at AU$0.05 cents to AU$1.00 via Digital Download
I would consider it . Considering Bleach would be the first series I would support and often with it
its 25 eps per ARC (not season) then 25 bucks for 25 eps would be like a USA DVD Boxset.

At the moment most digital download anime is via USA based companies and its old shows which I have no interested in , they are old , chances are its OVER and finished and I could get it on Retail DVD.

The whole point I find of Digital Download is to support something at the SAME time around the world at a REDUCED PRICED then the Retail cost (shop bought) and FASTER then waiting for Retail market.
 

What I am saying and not saying

Offer choice for the Anime English speaking market :-
Sure release Animation thats made in Asia with USA voice dubs and very low quality dubs by USA companies BUT

- START TO OFFER ANIME DIRECT FROM ASIAN COMPANIES with subs THEY put on their own ANIME and export
to USA/AU/English speaking countries AHEAD of time of the Dub'ed releases and offer the non USA dubb'ed releases
CHEAPER to the legit market .

- Release Anime season boxsets cheaper without USA Dubs in Australia and USA
(Also clearly label these boxsets displaying warning like NO ENGLISH AUDIO
so idiots dont buy it then bitch ,ohh no series xzy i got cheap off this company has no english audio)

- Release Anime Movies with Eng Subs at the same time the Movie comes out in Asia
EG Bleach and Naruto , I would of enjoyed to pay to see the Bleach and Naruto movies
at the local Brisbane Movies then WAIT A YEAR too YEAR and 6 months to watch it.

- Release Anime a lot faster in Australia and NO not everyone enjoys watching Dragon Ball Z on AU TV in the morning
(actually some people watching that show feel like throwing up)

Update:

Just reading about upcoming Bleach Anime Upcoming eps and its a typical example what I am saying , notice
the R2 (Japan) DVD's and its date you can buy them , yet the USA ones are FARRRRRRRRR behind
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Bleach_episodes#Season_10:_2008_-_2009

A USA persons blog post on giving up on fansubs and going legit (not that I share the persons views):
http://animealmanac.com/2008/08/05/living-legit-a-month-without-fansubs/

Upcoming Games that might be worth playing in 2009/2010 on PC

- GTA 4 PC (once its finaly fixed and playable on 7xxx video cards)
- F.E.A.R. Project Origin (Feb 2009) [FPS]
- Delta Force Angel: Falls (July 2009) [Tactical Shooter]
- Company of Heroes - Tales of Valor (standalone sequel) (2009)
- Operation Flashpoint 2: Dragon Rising (2009) [Tactical Shooter]
- Postal 3 (Late 2009) FPS]
- Stormrise (2009) [FPS]
- Death Track Resurrection (2009) [Racing]

- Aliens: Colonial Marines (2009/2010) FPS]
- Ground Branch (TBA 2009-2010)  [Tactical Shooter]
- Duke Nukem Forever (TBA) [FPS]
- Enemy in Sight (TBA)
- Diablo 3 (TBA) (RPG)
- Elveon (TBA) (RPG)
- Project Offset (TBA, working title)
- Rogue Warrior (TBA) 

The End of VHS in 2008

- DVD Video Discs are still strong in the Retail Market
- High Def Discs (Blueray) arent that popular.

History:-
VHS was invented by JVC and then Sony released Betamax (better but VHS won).
Then VHS VCR's ended up using licensed Sony Techonology in the VCR's to make
VHS tapes and VHS VCR's better

Apprently there "Digital-VHS"(D-VHS), (never took off thou)
records digital high definition video onto a VHS form factor tape.
D-VHS can record up to 4 hours of ATSC Digital Television in 720p or 1080i
formats using the fastest record mode (equivalent to VHS-SP), and
up to 40 hours of standard definition video at slower speeds .

DVD format - The DVD-Video format was introduced first, in
1996 in Japan,
1997 in USA
1998 in Euro
1999 in Australia.

Media Retail Company's still don't get the picture .

People didn't start buying VCR's in huge numbers till they got cheap
People didn't start buying DVD Players in huge numbers till they got cheap

People didn't start buying Movies on VHS in huge numbers till they got cheap
People didn't start buying Movies on DVD in huge numbers till they got cheap
People started buying more DVD's in value packs since they are cheap

People are slow to migrate to new techonology , if the current thing works
with your tv/screen , quality is fine , why move .
If it needs a whole new screen people arn't that to happy about it

Compression changing on computers also .
Mpeg 1 was used a lot in Video CD's and Mpeg 2 was used in Video CD's
and Mpeg 2 was used in DVD Video Disc's .
 (Mpeg 2 used in the first blueray discs also before protection added)

AVI 700meg instead of VHS/DVD video disc

Early 1998-2002 I started to see a lot of Divx 3.11 movies
(Ohh look at that its the time DVD was released overseas and not AU)
Divx 3.11 was a FREE Codec hacked from an microsoft one (DIFFERENT FROM DIVX 5/6/7)
Then around 2002-2003 , XVID became the standard in compression and Divx 3.11 was getting phased out.

Today XviD supports movies from VHS Tape , DVD Video Discs , TV SD , TV HD , TV High def 720.
If you want to see a lot of media released in XVID AVI format , then view the following websites
http://vcdquality.com/ and http://rlslog.net/

Credits:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_tape_recorder
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vhs

Happy Christmas 2008 & have an good safe New Year's

I am working a LOT over the Christmas and New Years Period
So I won't be "Celebrating" the Merry Gift Giving day.

Have a great time off work/study and safe travels to your
Xmas/new years events

(Photo from ourbrisbane.com )

(Brisbane River) City view from Kangaroo Point Cliffs
(Photo from ourbrisbane.com )

Brisbane City at Night - Taken at Dec 2008
(Photo from ourbrisbane.com )

Twilight (2008)

Release Dates

• USA           21 November 2008     
• Canada       21 November 2008     
• Belgium      26 November 2008
• Lebanon      04 December 2008     
• Australia     11 December 2008     
• Hong Kong  18 December 2008     
• Singapore   18 December 2008     
• UK             19 December 2008     
• NZ              26 December 2008     
• Germany     15 January     2009     
• Japan          09 April          2009

Info:
Bella Swan is a clumsy, kind hearted teenager with a knack for getting into trouble.
Edward Cullen is an intelligent, good looking vampire who is trying to hide his secret.
Against all odds, the two fall in love but will a pack of blood thirsty trackers and the
disapproval of their family and friends separate them?    

My view:
Teen girl falls in love with vampire
Wait isnt that like dozen of shows and movies already
eg Buffy The Vampire Slayer , eg True Blood ?

Still cute girl and vampires , ill watch it :-)
If I knew it was on in the AU movies yesterday I would
of went to see it in the CBD/Southbank . Ohh well.

Charliebrownau's Anime watched list:
 

Anime - Current Ongoing  & New Series
=============================

Bleach (2004-2008)
Naruto
Blassreiter (2008) - NEW
Nabari-no-ou (2008) AVI XVID
Real Drive
Macross Frontier (2008)
Mobile Suit (Kidou Senshi) Gundam 00 (2007-2008)
To Love Ru
True Tears

Busou Renkin
Darker Than Black
Devil May Cry
Dgrey-man (2006-2008)
Ergo Proxy
Genshiken S2
Goshuushou-sama Ninomiya-kun
Guu
Guu Deluxe
Heroic Age (2007)
Higurashi_no_Naku_Koro_ni
Himawari!
Kishin Taisen - Gigantic Formura (2007)
Lovely Complex
Rave Master (2001-2002)
School Days
Shakugan_no_Shana_Second
Skull Man (2007)
Wangan Midnight (new intial d type show)

Movies
======

Akara
Cowboy Bebop Movie
Escaflowne - A Girl In Gaea
Nija Scroll
Spritred Away
Perfect
Vampire Huntered - Bloodlust
Urotsukidoji - Legand Of The Overfiend
Wonderful Days
Spriggan
Armitage - Dual Matrix
Armitage - Poly Matrix
Hoshi No Koe
Patlabor - The Mobile Police -
Slayers - The movie
nausicaa of the valley of the wind
A Kite
You're Under Arrest Special - No Mercy
Mahoromatic S2 - Year End Special
Gundress
The Cat Returns
Grave of the Fireflies
Princess Mononoke
Vexille (2007
Arashi no Yoru ni
Animatrix SVCD
Appleseed 1 (2004)
Appleseed 2 - Ex Machina (2007)
Bleach Movie 1
Bleach Movie 2
Blood The Last Vampire Movie 
CardCaptor Sakura - Movies
Cowboy Bebop (Movie) (2001)
DeathNote Movie (2006) [Live Action]
Final Fantasy VII Advent Children (2005)
Final Fantasy VII Dirge of Cerberus (2006) OVA
Full Metal Alchemist - The Movie (2006)
Ghost In The Shell 
Highlander Search For Vengeance
I-S-F
Lupin The 3rd - Stolen Lupin
Naruto Movie 1 2 and 3 + Naruto Shippuden Movie 1

Anime - Watched OVA's
==================

Bastard
Boku wa imouto ni koi wo suru (2005)
Demon Blade (2004)
Eien no Aseria  The Spirit of Eternity Sword
Final Fantasy VII - Last Order (2005)
Full Metal Panic - The Second Raid - OVA 
Futari Ecchi (2002)
Green Green
Itsudatte My Santa
Koihime
Mezzo Forte
Read or Die - OVA (2001) - Completed
Schooldays - Completed - 1 ep
Sky Girls OVA
Space Fantasia 2001
Today in Class 5-2
I''s Pure - OVA (2006)

Anime - Older watched series
=====================

Bakuretsu Tenshi (2004)
Big 0
Blue Gender - licensed
Chocotto Sister (2006)
Gakuen Utopia Manabi Straight (2007)
Gunbuster 2
Hellsing Ultimate OVA
Kishin Taisen - Gigantic Formura (2007)
Lemon Angel Project
Maho Sensei Negima
Mai-Otome Zwei (OVA) (2006-2007)
Mujin Wakusei Survive
Nadesico
Pita Ten
Seto No Hanayome
Summer OVA
Sumomo Mo Momo Mo - Chijou Saikyou no Yome (2006)
Teizokurei Daydream - OVA
Today in Class 5-2 (OVA) ( Kyou no Go no Ni )
Uninhabited Planet SURVIVE
Voltron - Defender of the Universe [1984] (the lion one)
Xenosaga (2005)
Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge
Astro boy
Gun X Sword
Gundam SEED Destiny
Ikkitosen Dragon Destiny (2007)
Robotech (Incompete) (FS-MKV)
Tokyo Majin Gakuen Kenpuchou (2007)
Ah! My Goddess! - Season 1 (2005)
Ah! My Goddess! - Sorezore no Tsubasa (2006)
Alien 9  
Amaenaideyo  Katsu  (2006)
Amaenaideyo - First Season (2005-2006)  
Battle Programer Shirase
Beck (2004)
Big O - Season 1
Black Blood Brothers (2006)
Black Cat (2005-2006) 
Black Lagoon (2006)
Black Lagoon - The Second Barrage (2006)
Blood + (2005-2006)
Bokurano
Busou Renkin (2006)
Canvas 2 (2005-2006) 
Cardcaptor Sakura
Chobbits - 
Code Geass - Season 1
Cosplay Complex - 
Coyote Ragtime Show (2006)
Da Capo - 2nd Season  
Death Note (2006)
Demonbane (2006)
Erementar Gerad
Eureka 7 [Nanashi]
Fate-stay Night (2006)
Final Approach
FMP Second Riad
Fullmetal Alchemist
Futakoi (2004) Fansub
GANTZ
Get Backers
Ghost Hunt 
Ghost in the shell
Girls Bravo 2nd Season
Girls Bravo
Goldenboy
Green Green TV (2003)
GunParade March
Gunslinger Girl - Season 1 (2003)
Hanbun no Tsuki ga Noboru Sora 
Hand Maid May (2000) 
Hellsing 
Innocent Venus (2006)
Intial D - 2nd Stage  
Intial D - 4th Stage
Intial D - 1st Stage
Jyu-Oh-Sei (2006)
Karin (2005-2006)
Kashimashi - Girl Meets Girl (2006)
Madlax
Mai Otome (2005) [spin off of  Mai HiME]
Makai Senki  Disgaea (April-July 2006)
Mamotte Shugogetten - ed -
Naruto - Part 1 (2002-2007)
NGE - Remastered
Noein (2005-2006)
Rahxephon Series
Samurai Champloo
Samurai Deeper Kyo
Serial Experiments Lain
Shuffle (2006)
Sola (2007)
Solty Rei (2005-2006)
Soultaker (2001)
Strawberry Eggs
Strawberry Panic (2006)
Suzuka (2006)
Tactical Roar (2006)
Tenjou Tenge
Tenshi Na Konamaiki (2002)
The Third (2006)
Those Who Hunt Elves - Season 2 (1997)
Tonagura!  (2006)
Trigun  
Trinity Blood (2005-2006)
Ultra Maniac TV 
Utawarerumono (2006)
Witchblade (2006) [Anime] [USA ]
Yoake Mae yori Ruriiro na - Crescent Love (2006)
Zero no Tsukaima (2006) - Season 1
Claymore (2007)
Cluster Edge - TV  (2005-2006)
Inukami! (Dog girl) (2006) 
Twelve Kingdoms () -
Umisho
ZEGAPAIN (2006)
Zero No Tsukamia - Second Season (2007)
Zoids Chaotic Century
Zombie Loan
Karas (OVA)
Darker then Black (2007)
Ah! My Goddess Movie
Angel Sanctuary
Asagiri no Miko
Ai Yori Aoshi  Enishi
Ai Yori Aoshi   
Airmaster      
Avenger
Azumanga Daioh  
Battle Programer Shirase
Bible Black      
Berserk         
Buttobi CPU      
Bubblegum Crisis
Chobits      
Cool Devices      
Cowboy Beb0p     
Crono Crusade    
DA Capo       
Dear S 
DNA^2          
Earth Defender Mao-Chan
E's Otherwise   
Elven Bride      
Escaflowne      
FLCL   
Final          
Futari Ecchi     
FullMetal Panic!
Full Metal Panic - Fumoffu
Final Fantasy Unlimited
Galaxy Angel      
Gantz
Geneshaft       
Ghost In The Shell - Stand Alone Complex
Ghost In The Shell - SAC #1
Gravitation      
Gunslinger Girl
Gun Smith Cats
Hayaukyo Maids     
Hanaukyo Maids La verite
Hack Sign      
Hand May   
Hellsing      
Hale Nochi Guu
Intial D        
La Blue Girl Returns
LastEXILE     
Love Hina
Last Exile      
Liminality   
Kimi Ga Nozomu Eien 
Koihime      
Kono Minkuku Mo Utsukshi Sekai
Kiddy Grade   
Maburaho   
Mahoro-Matic     
Mahoromatic     
Magical Twilight
Macross Zero
Midori No Hibi
Momoiro Sisters        
Narutaru        
Najica Blitz Tactics
Neo Genesis Eva
Noir          
Now & Then     
Ogenki Clinic     
Orgai Teacher     
Onegai Twins    
Photon         
Planet ES Phase   
Pita Ten   
Saber Marionette 'J to X'
Saikano Anime  
Serial Exp Lian   
Scrapped Princess
sister Princess     
Slave Warrior Maya  
slayers         
Steel Angel Kurumi
Strawberry Eggs    
Space Ship Agga Ruter
Syryed           
Tales Of Eterina   
Tokyo Underground  
Those Who Hunt Elves I 
Those Who Hunt Elves II
Triangle Hearts - Sweet Songs - Forever       
Shamanic Princess - OVA
Sol Bianca
Yumeria    
Vandread        
Vandread 2nd Stage 
Words Worth       
witch hunter robin
X          

Check out this article for what GTA 4 PC needs:
http://au.pc.ign.com/articles/934/934268p1.html

For GTA 4 for PC you "need":
- Games For Windows
- Adobe Flash
- Internet Explorer
- SecuROM
- Rockstar Games Social Club application
- You will need an active internet connection to activate the software
- retail disk is required to be in the computer drive in order to play
- An active internet connection is required to play multi-player games
- Microsoft's .NET Framework

extra needed:
In order to upload videos to our internet site and play online multi-player modes, you will also need an active internet connection and accounts with both Rockstar Games Social Club and Games for Window-LIVE.

System Specs needed
OS: Windows
CPU:  Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8Ghz, AMD X2 64 2.4Ghz
Memory: 1.5GB
16GB Free Hard Drive Space
Video Card: 256MB NVIDIA 7900 / 256MB ATI X1900

I've heard and seen multiple sites saying 1 gig of RAM for XP
2 gig of RAM for Vista
Some sites saying 512 video cards needed

Some sites saying Pixel Shader 3 video cards needed
(nvidia 7600 and higher)

Got an e-mail from playstation website trying to pimp some games, as these sites do
but I cant see any games on the entire platform that wants to make me want to get one.

I will update this post more later on , just a quick post before I head off to work .

http://au.playstation.com/news/bonusoffer08.jhtml

Beginning 7th November 2008, you will be able to purchase a PLAYSTATION®3 in stores, and get a FREE game, from the following selection:-

- Little Big Planet more info
- MotorStorm Pacific Rift more info
- Resistance 2 more info
(Available 27/11/2008)
- SingStar ABBA more info
(Available 20/11/2008)
- SingStar Vol 1 Microphone Bundle more info
- SingStar Vol 2 Microphone Bundle more info

Look for the following logo on packaging:

FULL TERMS AND CONDITIONS

*Offer limited to participating outlets in Australia and New Zealand. Games include those depicted on this packaging, but may vary if stock limited. Games shown will be included in the offer subject to release dates. Offer commences 07/11/2008 and will end 26/01/2009 (or earlier, while stock lasts).

Offer limited to one of the above PLAYSTATION®3 titles per purchase. This offer is available in respect of any new PLAYSTATION®3 80GB computer entertainment system purchased during the offer period. Offer only available at time of purchase. Offer not valid in conjunction with any other promotion.

The offer may include a MA15+ rated game (R16 rated in New Zealand) – game restricted to persons 15 years and over in Australia/16 years and over in New Zealand. Alternative games are provided for those under the age restriction.

Checked out DSE has this special and they are cheaper then JB HI FI , $672.00 for the PS3 80 gig model and free game .

Spoze thats better then the PS3 that came out in March 2007 (Nov 2006 in Asia/USA) for AU$1000 .Still 2 years wait for the PS3 to come down to the amount it was sold in Asia and USA 2 years ago is a wank.